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F MCINTYRE GOMBINBDRUBBBR-TIP AND TAPE MEASURE.

110.462,151. Patented Oct 27 1891 341/0014120@ WMZ tb'omwr (N0 Model.)

wtnaooe@ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK MCINTYRE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE EAGLE PENCIL COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED RUBBER TIP AND TAPE-MEASURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 462,1 51, dated October 27,1891.

Application filed May l, 1891.

.T all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, FRANK MOINTYRE, of the city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Combined Rubber Tip and Tape-Measure, of which the following is a specilication. l

This rubber tip is intended for application to and use with a lead-pencil; and it is my object to unite with it in one simple, con- Io venient, and cheap structure a tape-measure. To this end I interpose the tape-reel between the socket for the rubber' and the socket for the pencil, hanging the reel on an axis at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the tip between the side pieces which connect the two sockets of which the tip is composed. The heads of the reel are of a diameter greater than that of the tip. TheyI7 therefore project V laterally beyond each side of the tip in a posizo tion to be easily taken hold of when it is desired to wind up the tape on the reel.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 is aside elevation, of a combined pencil-tip and tape-measure embodying my' invention. Fig. 3v is a longitudinal axial section of the same ou line 3 3, Fig. 2.

The tip is made of sheet metal, and it consists of the socket or holder A for the rubber R, the pencil-receiving socket B,and the sfide 3o pieces or strips C, which connect the two parts and form the supports between which the tape-reel D is pivoted.

The rubber-holderA and the pencilfreceiver B may be of any known and suitable con- 3 5 struction. They are held by the connectingstrips C at such distance apart as to admit between them a tape-reel of the desired di- Serial No. 391,250. (No model.)

ameter. This reel D is pivoted and supported in the strips C on an axis at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the tip, and the heads 4o or end disks of the reel are of such diameter as to project laterally from each side of the tip, for the purposes hereinbetore indicated.

The parts A, B, and C can be made of one piece of metal and are so shown in the drawings. All that is needed is to take a sheetmetal tube of the required length for the Whole tip, cut away on each side that portion ot' it which is to receive the reel, leaving in this portion mere side strips, which are then 5o iiattened out to form the reel-supports C.

The device is simple and cheap and easily made.

I make no claim to combining` a tape-meassure with a pencil-tip.

I am aware that it has been proposed to combine a tape-measure with lead-pencils, pencil-tips, scissors, and a variety ct other articles.

Vhat I do claim is- 6o The tip consisting of the rubber-holder A, the pencil socket or holder B, the strips C, extending between and connecting these parts, and the tape-reel D, interposed between thepartsA B and pivoted in and supported by the strips C, as hereinbefore shown and described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK MOINTYRE.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL KRAUs, PERCY H. BUCKMASTER, 

